US President Donald Trump has warned Russia to impose additional tariffs within the next 24 hours, increasing the pressure on India over oil purchases from Russia. Trump said that due to buying oil from Russia, he would increase the US fee on India in the next 24 hours. India has not been a good business partner. They do a lot of business with us, but we do not do business with them. In an interview to CNBC, Trump said that India has not been a good business partner, as they do a lot of business with us, but we do not do business with them. So we reached 25 percent compromise, but I think I will increase it a lot in the next 24 hours, because they are buying Russian oil. They are fueling the war machine.

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Trump has intensified his attack after calling both New Delhi and Moscow a “dead economy” last week. After imposing 25% tariff on Indian goods, he has threatened to impose additional fees by New Delhi this week citing huge amount of Russian oil. A day earlier, Trump accused India of selling Russian oil for rough profits in the open market. He wrote on his Truth social platform on Monday, he does not care how many people are killing the Russian war machine in Ukraine. For this reason, I will increase the tariffs given by India to America.

India reacted sharply and targeted the US and the European Union and said that the US and the European Union are targeting it wrongly over the purchase of oil from Russia, while the two countries do widespread trade with Russia despite the war in Ukraine. After Trump’s attack against India and Russia, India reacted that it shows that the countries who are criticizing India are involved in trade with Russia themselves.

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Earlier today, Russia criticized Trump for putting “illegal” pressure on its allies like India and forcing them to break the business relationship with Moscow. Defending India’s right to choose its business partner, Kremlin’s spokesman Dimitri Peskov said, “We hear many statements that are actually threats, efforts to force countries to break up business relations with Russia. We do not consider such statements valid.